This blog is dedicated to specific aspects of Amateur Radio, such as DXing, Contesting, Morse Code, Operating Techniques, Technological Innovations, Antenna improvements and performance, etc.
Plus news about my Radio station and my accomplishments. No particular policy on the posts, but no politics/religion/irrelevant posts will be tolerated. Respect this and be respected. 73 from Rhodes Island, Dodecanese.

Monday, June 16, 2014

Yesterday it was a challenging day for 6m. Es clouds everywhere, short skip present, long distance contacts easy at the same time ... fantastic!

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I hadn't worked Z3 on 6m, although we are very close. But, yesterday's opening gave me 3 QSOs with Z3 stations, Z30U in SSB and Z35T & Z35Z in CW, for my DXCC entity #101 on 6m.Between these QSOs, British stations were also quite strong here, worked a dozen of them, most of which were EIs. Kept monitoring the band for any transatlantic QSO, but it did not happen.What was also very interesting was the fact that I worked an EA8 who was stronger when beaming to the North Pole (almost 90 deg. off his QTF) and a few Ukrainians that were stronger when beaming to Southwestern Europe (almost 80 deg. off their QTF).Looks like we are having a somewhat unstable but very active 6m season.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Google has implemented an interesting feature amongst its Services, called Street View.Google's special cars equipped with panoramic roof-top cameras have driven all main roads of 77 countries until today, leading to a quite spectacular result.Here is a view of my home QTH, with my antennas up on the roof:

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Of course, some things have changed ﻿since the specific frame was captured, but you can get the main theme, anyway !!